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A typical college classroom would normally include students sitting at their desks while a teacher lectures, and the students would be taking notes. In the classroom of Tiffany Parsons, sociology lecturer at the University of West Georgia, students are rolling dice, clutching fake money and trading properties. Parsons has utilized the classic board game Monopoly to teach her students important lessons about sociology.

A record number of nearly 900 undergraduate and graduate degrees were conferred for the fall semester Sunday, according to preliminary numbers, with approximately 750 candidates for graduation participating in one of the two commencement ceremonies.

Dr. Faye McIntyre, dean of the Richards College of Business and Sewell chair of private enterprise at the University of West Georgia, needed only four words to tell why three of her faculty members received an annual award given by students from across Georgia.